Picturing History at the Ottoman Court

Fetvacı, Emine

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“…96 As Emine Fetvacı has shown for a slightly later period, the palace library was a lending library of sorts for court officials and scholars affiliated with the dynasty. 97 In this way, the Ottoman court-and Islamic princely courts more generally-became a major site for scholarship as its wide-ranging collection frequently supplemented the private collections of scholars and the public holdings of mosques and formal teaching institutions. Through patronage of works, such as Bidlīsī's Hasht bihisht in an Ottoman context or Tuḥfat al-faqīr in a Timurid one, the princely court stood not only as a repository of learning, but also a promoter of its advancement.…”

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History as Science: The Fifteenth-Century Debate in Arabic and Persian

Markiewicz

2017

J Early Mod Hist

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In the fifteenth century, scholars writing in Arabic and Persian debated the nature of historical inquiry and its place among the sciences. While the motivations and perspectives of the various scholars differed, the terms and parameters of the debate remained remarkably fixed and focused, even as it unfolded across a vast geographic space between Herat, Cairo, and Constantinople. This article examines the contours of this debate and the relationships between five historians working on these issues. Although the scholars who considered these questions frequently arrived at different conclusions, they all firmly agreed, in contrast to previous doubt regarding the status of history, that historical inquiry did indeed constitute a distinct science requiring its own particular method. Accordingly, the debate and its conclusions helped cement the place of history within the broader pantheon of the sciences as conceived by scholars in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onwards.

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confidence: 99%